Bronx, N.Y. – The Fordham volleyball squad continues its 2026 season by traveling to Delaware to compete in the University of Delaware Invitational on September 4.
 
Fordham will open the tournament by facing the University of New Haven on Friday at 1:00 p.m. and then play the host school, Delaware, at 4:00 p.m.
 
The Rams are off to a good start, opening the season by going 2-1 at the Temple Invitational and then defeating FDU, 3-0, on Tuesday night in the Rose Hill Gym.
  
SERIES HISTORIES

• This will be the second meeting all-time between Fordham and New Haven with the Rams winning the first meeting, 3-0, at last year's Columbia Invitational.
• The Rams and the Blue Hens have met twice before, splitting the two meetings with Fordham winning, 3-0, in 1996, and Delaware, 3-0, in 2021

NEWS & NOTES

• The Rams are led by first year head coach Bryan Weber, who spent the last 11 seasons at St. John's as an assistant coach and associate head coach.  Prior to St. John's, he was an assistant coach at his alma mater, New Paltz.
• Fordham was picked tenth in the preseason Atlantic 10 coaches poll.
• Last season, the Rams set multiple team blocking records, including total blocks at 303. Fordham tallied 17 games with 10 or more blocks, and broke the total blocks record in 15 fewer sets than the 2005 Rams.
• Despite missing a portion of the year with an injury, Tatum Holderied still managed to set the single season block assists record with 144 in 2025, while her 1.83 blocks per set were the second-best mark in school history.  She also currently holds the career blocks per set record at 1.37.
• Whitney Woodrow has now amassed 2,138 career assists, placing her ninth on the Fordham career list.  Currently, only five Rams have reached the 3,000-assist mark.

WHO'S NEXT

• Following the Delaware Invitational, the Rams return to the Rose Hill Gym to take on St. John's on Tuesday, September 8, at 7:00 p.m